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Sundance Institute Announces $60000 in Science in Cinema Awards - Broadway World
Sundance Institute Announces $60000 in Science in Cinema Awards
Broadway World
Films previously supported by the initiative include The Stanford Prison Experiment, I Origins, Computer Chess, Robot & Frank, Valley of Saints, Another Earth, Obselidia, Adam, Sleep Dealer, Dark Matter, House of Sand, Grizzly Man, Primer and Dopamine.
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Broadway World
Films previously supported by the initiative include The Stanford Prison Experiment, I Origins, Computer Chess, Robot & Frank, Valley of Saints, Another Earth, Obselidia, Adam, Sleep Dealer, Dark Matter, House of Sand, Grizzly Man, Primer and Dopamine.
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Beyond Alice: A look at Lewis Carroll's lesser-known contributions on his birthday - The Indian Express
The Indian Express
Beyond Alice: A look at Lewis Carroll's lesser-known contributions on his birthday
The Indian Express
Unlike the deck of cards in Alice in Wonderland, Alice's challenge in Through the Looking Glass features a chess set. Most main characters in the story are represented by a chess piece or animals, with Alice herself being a ... Under-appreciated in its ...
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The Indian Express
Unlike the deck of cards in Alice in Wonderland, Alice's challenge in Through the Looking Glass features a chess set. Most main characters in the story are represented by a chess piece or animals, with Alice herself being a ... Under-appreciated in its ...
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Imagining Football's Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066 - WIRED
WIRED
Imagining Football's Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066
WIRED
As analytics became more sophisticated, game theory more prevalent, and strategy more mutually predictable, football threatened to resemble two supercomputers playing chess against each other: IBM's Big Blue scarcely distinguishable from the Big Blue ...
Think Super Bowl 50 will be huge? Imagining the 100th editionSports Illustrated
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WIRED
As analytics became more sophisticated, game theory more prevalent, and strategy more mutually predictable, football threatened to resemble two supercomputers playing chess against each other: IBM's Big Blue scarcely distinguishable from the Big Blue ...
Think Super Bowl 50 will be huge? Imagining the 100th editionSports Illustrated
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Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go - BBC News
BBC News
Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go
BBC News
"Go is vastly harder than chess using any of the standard techniques for game-playing, and for some time it's been the case that people have regarded that you would need something fundamentally new in order to crack it," explained Dr Sean Holden from ...
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Have Their Eyes Set on the Chinese Game of GoNDTV
Mark Zuckerberg shows off Facebook's AI engine that finally beats humans at the game of GoBGR India
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BBC News
"Go is vastly harder than chess using any of the standard techniques for game-playing, and for some time it's been the case that people have regarded that you would need something fundamentally new in order to crack it," explained Dr Sean Holden from ...
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Have Their Eyes Set on the Chinese Game of GoNDTV
Mark Zuckerberg shows off Facebook's AI engine that finally beats humans at the game of GoBGR India
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Jumping the Corners - Flathead Beacon
Jumping the Corners
Flathead Beacon
Chess, of course, is played on a board divided up into 64 squares — I know there are math nerds out there who'll insist the number of squares is really 204, but we're not going there. Pawns are the lowliest piece on the board, able only to move dead ...
Flathead Beacon
Chess, of course, is played on a board divided up into 64 squares — I know there are math nerds out there who'll insist the number of squares is really 204, but we're not going there. Pawns are the lowliest piece on the board, able only to move dead ...
Categories: Chess Research
Jumping the Corners - Flathead Beacon
Jumping the Corners
Flathead Beacon
We should all be relieved to hear that Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has determined chess is forbidden in Islam. The game is a waste of time apparently, and leads to gambling. So don't expect speed chess tournaments in Mecca anytime soon. No word on if ...
Flathead Beacon
We should all be relieved to hear that Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has determined chess is forbidden in Islam. The game is a waste of time apparently, and leads to gambling. So don't expect speed chess tournaments in Mecca anytime soon. No word on if ...
Categories: Chess Research
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Have Their Eyes Set on the Chinese Game of Go - NDTV
NDTV
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Have Their Eyes Set on the Chinese Game of Go
NDTV
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a link to a research paper that shows off the company's progress in creating a bot that can move lightning fast, and still be as good as previous systems at playing Go. Go is a Chinese game where two players ...
NDTV
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a link to a research paper that shows off the company's progress in creating a bot that can move lightning fast, and still be as good as previous systems at playing Go. Go is a Chinese game where two players ...
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Marcel Dzama: From Fantasy to Politics & Controversy - The Culture Trip
Marcel Dzama: From Fantasy to Politics & Controversy The Culture Trip
Marcel Dzama: From Fantasy To Politics Controversy - The Culture Trip
Marcel Dzama: From Fantasy To Politics Controversy The Culture Trip
Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go board game - BBC News
Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go board game BBC News
Facebook has created an artificial intelligence system that is "getting close" to beating the best human players at the Chinese board game Go, Mark Zuckerberg ...
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Williamson, Brentwood library events: Jan. 27–Feb. 2 - The Tennessean
The Tennessean
Williamson, Brentwood library events: Jan. 27–Feb. 2
The Tennessean
Scholastic Chess Club for Ages 7–12: 4:30–6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29. Two on-site chess coaches from the Nashville Chess Center will teach beginning, intermediate and advanced strategies. Everyone is welcome, no matter their chess skill level. Boards are ...
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The Tennessean
Scholastic Chess Club for Ages 7–12: 4:30–6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29. Two on-site chess coaches from the Nashville Chess Center will teach beginning, intermediate and advanced strategies. Everyone is welcome, no matter their chess skill level. Boards are ...
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Manny, Music, and Beethoven - Patch.com
Patch.com
Manny, Music, and Beethoven
Patch.com
I was cast in scholastic versions of operas and operettas such as “The Pirates of Penzance” and “Carmen”. They were all shortened, of course, to be performed by grade schoolers but they were a tremendous experience. I never thought of those things as ...
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Patch.com
I was cast in scholastic versions of operas and operettas such as “The Pirates of Penzance” and “Carmen”. They were all shortened, of course, to be performed by grade schoolers but they were a tremendous experience. I never thought of those things as ...
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B.o.b. Releases Rap Hitting Back At 'Flat Earth' Critic Neil Degrasse Tyson - Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com
B.o.b. Releases Rap Hitting Back At 'Flat Earth' Critic Neil Degrasse Tyson
Contactmusic.com
The hip-hop star was unfazed by the backlash and urged critics to do their own research before attacking him, but deGrasse Tyson refused to let B.o.B.'s comments slide. Addressing the Twitter controversy, he remarked, "Flat Earth is a ... B.o.B ...
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Contactmusic.com
The hip-hop star was unfazed by the backlash and urged critics to do their own research before attacking him, but deGrasse Tyson refused to let B.o.B.'s comments slide. Addressing the Twitter controversy, he remarked, "Flat Earth is a ... B.o.B ...
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Facebook's artificially intelligent Go player is getting smarter - VentureBeat
VentureBeat
Facebook's artificially intelligent Go player is getting smarter
VentureBeat
Facebook today is demonstrating recent progress in its effort to have a computer program beat a human being in the ancient Chinese board game Go. In an academic paper that Facebook published online today, Facebook documents the advancements of its ...
VentureBeat
Facebook today is demonstrating recent progress in its effort to have a computer program beat a human being in the ancient Chinese board game Go. In an academic paper that Facebook published online today, Facebook documents the advancements of its ...
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Today's Calendar - Bennington Banner (subscription)
Today's Calendar
Bennington Banner (subscription)
Vermont's bat species, disease impacts, research and how to help. Alyssa Bennet, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department All lectures begin at 7 p.m. One World Conservation Center, 413 Route 7. Beginning beekeepers course: The Bennington County ...
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Vermont's bat species, disease impacts, research and how to help. Alyssa Bennet, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department All lectures begin at 7 p.m. One World Conservation Center, 413 Route 7. Beginning beekeepers course: The Bennington County ...
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Chess Tourney Easy as Pie for Scots Team - Park Cities People
Chess Tourney Easy as Pie for Scots Team
Park Cities People
The Scots chess team placed first in both the championship and novice divisions of the Dallas Chess Club's Scholastic K-12 January Classic last Sunday. In the championship division, captain Austin Mead lead his team as the first-place individual winner ...
Park Cities People
The Scots chess team placed first in both the championship and novice divisions of the Dallas Chess Club's Scholastic K-12 January Classic last Sunday. In the championship division, captain Austin Mead lead his team as the first-place individual winner ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, ..... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, ..... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
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Fox News Announces Lineup for Thursday's GOP Debate - TVNewser
TVNewser
Fox News Announces Lineup for Thursday's GOP Debate
TVNewser
Polling in Iowa was based on research done by American Research Group, Quinnipiac University, FOX News, CNN/ORC, and Loras College; while New Hampshire data came from American Research Group, Franklin Pierce/Boston Herald, FOX News, ...
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TVNewser
Polling in Iowa was based on research done by American Research Group, Quinnipiac University, FOX News, CNN/ORC, and Loras College; while New Hampshire data came from American Research Group, Franklin Pierce/Boston Herald, FOX News, ...
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The Lyrics To BoB's Flat Earth Anthem 'Flatline' - With Science Annotations - Forbes
Forbes
The Lyrics To BoB's Flat Earth Anthem 'Flatline' - With Science Annotations
Forbes
Yesterday, rapper B.o.B. tweeted out several items indicating support for the idea that the Earth is flat. In response, astrophysicist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson issued a few fact-checks of B.o.B.'s tweets, refuting them as thoroughly ...
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Forbes
Yesterday, rapper B.o.B. tweeted out several items indicating support for the idea that the Earth is flat. In response, astrophysicist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson issued a few fact-checks of B.o.B.'s tweets, refuting them as thoroughly ...
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The Secret High-Society History of the Playboy Mansion - Curbed LA
Curbed LA
The Secret High-Society History of the Playboy Mansion
Curbed LA
He was also an avid chess player and music lover. Anne was a founding member of the Music Center, a member of the Southern California Symphony Association, and the ... "The Spring Spree at Charing Cross," a cocktail party to benefit orthopedic research ...
Curbed LA
He was also an avid chess player and music lover. Anne was a founding member of the Music Center, a member of the Southern California Symphony Association, and the ... "The Spring Spree at Charing Cross," a cocktail party to benefit orthopedic research ...
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